At the beginning of April, Yan Dashan and Yan Shuwen went to the county town with 150 taels of silver to purchase. At this time, their family and Dongsheng's family had already started to pick the side branches in the fields. Other families in the village started a little later, but the seedlings also emerged one after another. Now that the weather is warm, they will feel hot after working in the fields for a long time. Each of them brought a bowl and drew water from the well when they were thirsty. Although there were five people, there were many fields and they had to be busy from morning to night every day.
She would find time to visit the farm every few days. Pruning had begun there, and Wang Shiwen, as she had instructed, had hired 12 farmhands to weed the wheat and rice paddies daily. Both inside and outside the farm were bustling with activity. Chunxiao gave Shufeng another 10 taels of silver, asking her to keep it on the books and help manage it.
Yan Dashan and his men have been out for a particularly long time this time. It has been ten days already. Every time they go out, Tian becomes worried, especially when she knows that the situation outside is not peaceful now.
Chunxiao was also worried. Logically, a trip to the county town shouldn't take so long. Perhaps something had happened? But the farm work was too busy for her to dwell on it.
Yan Dashan and Shuwen returned on the 13th, having been away for a full 12 days. When she got the news, she rushed over, expecting to see them both in bad spirits again, but they were in very good spirits. Shuwen ran over when she saw her, "Aunt, we went a long way to collect things from the mountain folks this time. Look, this yard is full of them, more than before." They came back with all three cows.
"I was wondering why you hadn't come back for so long, and why you were chatting up the mountain folks who were selling medicinal herbs." She knew that most medicinal herbs were picked from the mountains, but she just didn't know how the herbal medicine merchants knew their ways. No one was stupid enough to tell them this.
"This is a long story. We found a spy next to the herbal medicine dealer. Actually, we just gave him some benefits. You don't know that the price of medicine in this county has increased again. We can't buy much with the herbal medicine dealer's price. We were forced to pry open their way. After all, it's a free trade. Who can tell who it is if the person leaves?"
That's true. Chunxiao opened all the bags and took a look, then smelled them. They must be real, and the taste is almost the same. "How much is here?" It looks like there are at least 200 kilograms of each.
"I went to many places, but I was afraid I wouldn't get enough money, so I bought 250 kilograms of each item at first. But then I found out that the mountain people were selling it cheaper, so I bought 300 kilograms of each of the last three items."
These are enough for 7 months, which is really a good deal. Since the profit of collecting medicinal materials is so huge, she wants to collect more and sell them to Huang Minghe. It’s too expensive for him to buy from others anyway.
Unexpectedly, this idea was rejected by Yan Dashan as soon as it was proposed. "Although the medicinal herbs of the mountain people are cheap, they take a long time to collect them. They usually collect a lot of different kinds, and there are not many people who know how to prepare them, so they are not easy to come by. You don't know how many households we have visited to get these things. We have even had blisters on our feet. We are not professional herbalists, so there are still too few ways to get them. It is not easy to get them."
In that case, forget it. "Thanks to Big Brother and Shuwen, we saved a lot of money this time."
"I haven't been able to sleep these past few days. The fear and worry I've endured are finally worth it. Should I give these herbs to my little sister?"
"Just put it in the warehouse over here. My two sisters-in-law are doing the braising work anyway. You can send 50 kilograms each from my second sister-in-law. This way, it will be convenient for braising in either place without having to go out specifically to get the ingredients. Just make sure to bury the braising residue properly."
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